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Wireless Internet problems

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I've been having a few problems connecting my laptop (with Belkin Wireless G card) to my router (LinkSys WAG 54G). Sometimes it works, but usually it can't get an IP address and stops there. Anyway, after looking through Windows help I enabled UPnP network functionality in the XP firewall settings and this seems to have done the trick. However, despite there being a wireless connection and strong signal, IE will not download any pages (the usual cannot find DNS or server page appears). Unchecking the UPnP functionality now doesn't seem to solve the problem!

Does anyone know of any possible reasons why I cannot connect to the web despite a good wireless connection?
Thanks for your help

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do you get an ip address, gateway, dns server, the works? do an ipconfig /all (but for your own security reasons don't post the result here) and see if you get any results.
also, can you do a tracert to 216.193.217.209 (=certforums) and see how far you get? (again, don't post)

Have you updated the Firmware for the router? My Wireless Linksys router required a firmware upgrade before I could get it to work with my dads XDA! It also needed it for the encrpytion algorithms too! Linksys are notorious for bad firmware on their products and it isn't normally untill a couple of releases that they sort out the bugs!

Also my Wireless Linksys PC Card kept dropping the connection with the router, that is until I updated the driver for the card! All seems to be ok, but I had to disable the Windows Wireless software and let the linksys stuff take over.

d-Faktor wins the prize!
For some reason the obtain IP and DNS address automatically buttons were not checked. Doing this has enabled DHCP and I'm online again. Thinking back, it all started to go wrong after the last Windows update. Maybe that changed some settings? Anyway, thanks everyone for your help, much appreciated.

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